I’ll start. System of a Down.
Recently it seems like some people are JUST NOW realizing that Bring me the horizon is not Christian friendly and I wonder how many other artists can we put into the bag of “Wait, they were political this whole time?”
This thread has been reported to us. I’ve temporarily made the decision to keep it (other mods; feel free to override). While the question could have been phrased a hell of a lot better (“what are your favourite bands that people don’t get the real meaning of?”), its a valid question and doesn’t quite fall into the “offensive” rule.
Community: please stay civil. The fact that a song can be political does not mean it is worth debating if it’s politics are correct. If discussion significantly devolves into personal attacks, bans will be issued regardless of partisanship.
Off topic: I love how clear you are in your articulation. I wish to develop this skill some day . If you don’t mind me asking, how would one develop such a skill?
I must confess that you’re the first person to tell that to me — English class was always a disaster! The only thing I can point to is practice: I have a blog here that I write at regularly. The other component might be luck? They say that a broken clock is right twice a day and I’m inclined to agree.
In any case, thank you!
Aww yall are cute :) eloquence is a skill one must practice regularly. I agree you are quite good at typing out shit
Mate are you seriously saying System of a Down is a non political music act
What do you mean? They’re just songs about nice things, like bringing your own beer to a party, jumping on a pogo stick and shimmying until the break of dawn, yeah. Oh, and cocaine. Lots of cocaine.
I like grabbing my brush and doing a little makeup in the morning to start the day
Not wanting to die shouldn’t be a matter of politics.
Edit: I’m dead serious too. Singing about culture, tradition, and real heroes for humanity fall more inline with folklore style singing. Which is a tier above politics. Don’t ever diminish an artitsts work with the disgusting political label. And the “politics” of a certain genocidal nation are certainly debatable too.
Gotta love how so many MAGAites are bopping to Rage Against the Machine, without realizing that they themselves are part of the most vile and extreme version of the machine. They just latched on to the “fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” from “Killing in the Name” without that single grain of self awareness necessary to connect the only two dots there are.
He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means
And I say ‘yeah’Unrelated to this thread, but that chorus is among my favorite duets. Dave and Kurts voices mesh so incredibly well.
And I do like shooting guns… wait…
He’s the one you guys ^
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I always thought it was “To be in love” instead of “and I say ‘yeah’” until now. I never really understood that lyric, which is kinda ironic.
“Uhhhh ‘the machine’ is clearly Big Woke that’s trying to make us all gay trans Muslims. It’s like you don’t know anything 🙄”
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Why are you on a Communist platform?
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We are aware rednecks and Nazis exist.
We’re also aware we defeated you the first two times and we’ll defeat you again if we need to. 🤷♂️
You aren’t spreading anything, nobody on this platform legitimately wants Trump, and you aren’t going to convince a bunch of leftists to vote for Trump.
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Are these liberals in the room with us now?
That’s their deluded way of stealing the song. Real eyes realize real lies
Garbage (Shirley Manson’s band)
Nope nothing political here
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The natural yoghurt band
Gojira. It’s just angry noise and there’s no words to be heard, and even if there were lyrics they’d be in some strange dead language
Wait, are you serious?
Wha- Gojira has some songs with good lyrics, like The Shooting Star
weird al. huge range of actual parodies and his own songs as ‘style’ parodies. always clean, good fun
I loved his music until he admitted that all of it was Al-generated.
I also loved it afterwards, but I loved it until then too.
That joke is a testament to the ubiquity of sans-serif fonts these days.
I can’t tell if you’re kidding but I’m pretty sure he meant Al as in Uppercase A and lowercase L. As in “Weird Al”
That’s why they said Al-generated.
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Jesse Cook
The only thing funnier than people thinking Pink Floyd is apolitical is people thinking The Wall was right-wing.
Also met a strange amount of republicans who like Rise Against. When I was first getting into them I saw someone say they turned out to be fash, so I asked for more info and it turned out it was because they said they didn’t want racists, misogynists, or homophobes at their concerts.
Daron Malakian and the Scars on Broadway
Since it’s an AI making the music you can be sure it holds no opinions.
That is a very popular, but also very dangerous misconception. AI has all the same biases and opinions as the dataset it was trained on (and thus also those of the engineer who picked said dataset). Even if you just YOLO it by training it on “everything” and hoping it’ll average out, whatever biases society itself as a whole has, the AI will happily perpetuate.
For example, folks wanted to reduce judge bias in criminal sentencing, so they created an AI… and then trained it on historical sentences. Guess what happened?
In reality, if you want to create an unbiased AI, you’ve got to go out of your way to carefully curate the dataset to deliberately remove bias, and almost nobody is doing that.
Wait. You said “non political music” (as if that were a thing) and then you say SoaD???! Please read their lyrics. They are full of politics. From war protests to the Armenian genocide to anti-science and pseudo-science weirdness.
Music is always political.
Chumbawamba! (Am I doing this right?)
The day the Nazi died is a great song
Nothing ever burns down by itself. Every fire needs a little bit of help.
“Everybody” knows that song, and thinks of it as a harmless party song. “Nobody” has heard their earlier stuff which alternates between punk and anarchism-pop.
If I remember correctly, they emerged from the blue collar punk scene, and draws a lot of their political views from there.
Nothing special to see or hear in any of the following: their earlier stuff, their later stuff, tracks 2–12 on the same album, the 10,000 word essay in the liner notes, their followup single, etc.
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